If you have a grain of salt handy, now would be a good time to use it. A British tabloid cites unnamed sources who claim that Tom Cruise is remaking Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, in which he would star opposite John Travolta. Reportedly, Cruise got Paul Newman's blessing to take on the project in the months before he passed away last year.
I have heard Cruise talk about Butch and Sundance before in interviews, but as for remaking it with Travolta? I just don't think this sticks. I would be more apt to believe that Cruise was looking to produce the film with a couple younger stars. Redford was 13 years younger than Cruise is now when the original was made, and Travolta's not convincing enough anymore that anyone would believe him in a wild west role.
Still, the source claims that Cruise in interviewing screenwriters to tackle William Goldman's genre-bending script, and from the sounds of it, this isn't something Cruise is hypothesizing. “It has been a pet project of his that has been on the back-burner for years, but now he’s ready to go, and will most likely happily eschew the enormous salary that he normally commands.”
